Posted on 07/10/2009 11:03:57 PM PDT by pissant
Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution.
By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had shown a bias against his state -- at a time when other U.S. jobs were protected with a "buy American" clause in the $787 billion stimulus act. GM is shedding its contracts with Stillwater Mining Co.'s platinum and palladium mines as part of the automaker's emergence from bankruptcy protection.....
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Columbus-based Stillwater employs more than 1,300 people and runs the only mines in the United States producing the metals, about 90 miles southwest of Billings.
With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry.
A White House spokesman declined comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Give the people what they want and give it to them HARD!
“Probably as well as for the Californians.”
One guess as to who’s been moving there in droves lately.
Seriously, Governor. Did you really think becoming/remaining a Democrat that your increasingly off-the-charts-left-wing-party wouldn’t eventually rip off the people of your great state?
You can’t have it both ways
It’s crap like this that just sets the stage for Sarah. She couldn’t ask for a better scenario in 2012 than energy shortages, and now mineral shortages. Those are her strong points, and Americans know it, and will crave leadership on those issues.
When will the country realize it is the democrats policies that are hurting this country and will be getting our young adults killed to meet their agenda.
So we will continue to go to war for oil on foreign soil because we can’t drill here.
We will go to unfriendly Russia and unstable Africa to mine for precious metals to meet the ‘green agenda.’
Would be interesting to find out if Stillwater is union or not. That might be where the answer really lies!
MT couldn’t quite bring itself to vote or Obama, but it otherwise votes in Obama backers for other offices. Same with the Dakotas
Given the article contains no statement from a union rep, I would assume they are not union. Those union guys never miss an opportunity to display their high dudgeon. And reporters never miss giving them that opportunity. They’re “the people’s” representatives!
MT has been voting Democrat for senator in almost every election since statehood — Conrad Burns was a bizarre exception, and he didn’t wear well with MT people wanting subsidies.
No electric cars
Con’t blame Reagan. They also closed the Magma copper operation in Arizona, which was then the most modern operation in the USA. Other mines reduced operations or went out of business. You couldn’t make a dime on the price of copper as it was then.
We may have saved our platinum, but will we still have a country?
Hey Montana, Look to your East. Soon you will be doing as well as we are here in Michigan. Keep electing those Democrats. It’s working out great for us.
What we need to do is pass laws that limit the policies - whether D or R. We, the people, have allowed (trusted) Congress to run our country responsibly. They have totally failed in this trust. So we, the people, need to act by pressing to have laws such as those listed at http://pushbackuntil.com incorporated into law. No entity can continue to exist if it does not abide by well-thought-out policies and procedures. This is how Congress runs - no control, inept, incompetent, and essentially lawless. Why is it they can spend, spend, spend us into debt like they are all drunk and/or drugged? That has to stop.
Be in D.C. on 9/12!
Thi mine was obviously not a union operation.
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